Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Glasses, Cups, Saucers

This week Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge has the theme of glasses, cups and saucers. A lot of my favourite china and glassware is packed away at present but here are some I’d like to share with you.

This glass was given to me by my friends at the Op Shop at my 60th birthday dinner last month.

Glass given to me by my friends at the Op Shop for my birthday.

Glass given to me by my friends at the Op Shop for my birthday.

I bought these mugs a few months ago to replace ones I’d sent to the Op Shop. Life is too short to use mugs you don’t like.

Australian birds mug.

My favourite mug

An old Victorian Railways saucer.

David and I used to have quite a nice collection of old china and glassware from the railways. Unfortunately our old cat Jake jumped on a shelf and broke about half of it. I bought this saucer recently to replace one of the lost ones. Now to find a cup to match. The china mug has a picture of a British steam locomotive hand painted on it. We would occasionally use it for soup or hot chocolate but not often for fear of damaging it.

A souvenir mug from England.

This china is part of a dinner set that I bought in the 1990s, It is not old or valuable but it is pretty and I like to use it on special occasions.

What You Think

Naomi

I came to Australia with my mother and sister Vanda in 1966 from the UK aboard the Sitmar liner Castel Felice. We settled in South Australia I lived in the western suburbs of Adelaide for most of my life. I became very interested in retro items in my twenties. It was always a dream of mine to have an old house and fill it with retro items. I have done it twice now. My main interest is collecting old things. They do not have to be valuable, only interesting. There is something reassuring about old retro items. I have all sorts of things including doll related items. My other interests are my beautiful pets, art and going for drives to who knows where. I also enjoy board games or doing a scenic jig saw puzzle on a wintry afternoon by the fire. My goal is to travel a bit more as there are some places I would love to see

Vanda

Born in England in 1957 my family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband David. We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system. After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008.
We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. David passed away in 2015 and I'm here on my own now but I have Cindy the dog and Polly the cat to keep me company.
I currently co-write two Wordpress blogswith my sister Naomi. Our doll blog "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls", and a "Our Other Blog" which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania.